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Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, wanted by police on rape charges [update - warrant withdrawn]
Expressen (Swedish daily) ^ | 21 August, 2010 | Diamant Salihu and Niklas Svensson

Posted on 08/21/2010 1:39:08 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

(The article and other links, see below, are all in Swedish. So far international media has not reacted. But it will not be long....)

Julian Assange is wanted by Swedish police on probable grounds suspected of rape. Two women 20 and 30 years old contacted the police on Friday.


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To: manc

I believe the references to a homosexual have been about the Army PFC Bradley Manning, the traitor who provided the information.

I’ve not see anything to say that Julian Assange shares that predilection


81 posted on 08/21/2010 7:30:40 AM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

While one’s first thought is “setup,” we must remember that this worthless b*st*rd openly self-identifies with the most brutal of terrorists. They are the embodiment of evil — nothing is out of the question.

DG


82 posted on 08/21/2010 7:41:41 AM PDT by DoorGunner ("Rom 11: until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so, all Israel will be saved")
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To: ScaniaBoy

“Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, wanted by police on rape charges in Stockholm”

This is so good it just HAS to be fattening!


83 posted on 08/21/2010 7:44:42 AM PDT by Grunthor (My coffee creamer is fat free because I am not.)
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To: Venturer

Right. In their minds, we are to puritan about those things.


84 posted on 08/21/2010 7:53:59 AM PDT by rlmorel (America: Why should a product be deemed a failure if you ignore assembly and operation instructions?)
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To: Gondring
Yet in the accusations in the case at hand, it could be simply the alleged perpetrator using his power to get what he wanted sexually.

Some percentage of muggings are less about the money, than in the sense of power over the victim.

In the case of rape, for some percentage the sense of power adds to the sexual excitement. If this was not the case, then paying for a prostitute would make more sense. Even committing robbery and then using the money to buy a hooker would generally involve less risk of jail time than violent rape.

85 posted on 08/21/2010 7:56:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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86 posted on 08/21/2010 8:08:51 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: ScaniaBoy; M. Espinola
Could not happen to nicer guy. Er, uh . . . er uh, more accurately 'accused rapist.' What a total dirt bag. LOL. LOL !

Swedish authorities issue an arrest warrant for the founder of whistleblowers' website on suspicion of rape and molestation

Most Recent Breaking News Reports Posted Here

Perhaps Homeland Security will be able to interview him in prison. IMPO -- This evil bastard has blood on his hands.

87 posted on 08/21/2010 8:13:45 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Accused of Rape

(Aug. 21) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted by officials in Sweden on suspicion of rape and molestation.

Swedish authorities issued a warrant for his arrest Friday, in connection with two separate cases, The Associated Press reported.

“He should get in contact with police so that he can be confronted with the suspicions,” Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told the AP.

Assange, 39, an Australian with no fixed address, spends much of his time in Sweden to take advantage of its legal protections for his whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks angered U.S. authorities last month by leaking classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. government accused WikiLeaks compromising military security and potentially putting lives in danger.

Assange, 39, denied the allegations of rape and molestation on the WikiLeaks Twitter page.

“The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing,” he tweeted.

Swedish newspaper Expressen was the first to report the accusations. The WikiLeaks Twitter page dismissed Expressen as “a tabloid.”

Assange “didn’t know of the charges until he read them in the right wing tabloid Expressen this morning”, Kristinn Hrafnsson, a colleague of Assange’s at WikiLeaks, told Agence France-Presse. “There are powerful organizations who want to do harm to WikiLeaks.”

The Australian is believed to be in Sweden, but there are no reports that he has turned himself in.

He held a press conference in Stockholm last week, where he said that WikiLeaks planned to go ahead and publish 15,000 more secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.

Assange also spoke at a seminar held by Sweden’s Social Democratic Party and said he would begin writing columns for a left-wing newspaper, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Hrafnsson told AFP that Assange would “go to the police very quickly.”

(excerpt)

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-charged-with-rape-in-sweden/19602911


89 posted on 08/21/2010 8:15:00 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: ScaniaBoy

Allegations against WikiLeaks founder and spokesperson Julian Assange
On Saturday 21st of August, we have been made aware of rape allegations made against Julian Assange, founder of this project and one of our spokespeople.

We are deeply concerned about the seriousness of these allegations. We the people behind WikiLeaks think highly of Julian and and he has our full support.

While Julian is focusing on his defenses and clearing his name, WikiLeaks will be continuing its regular operations.

The WikiLeaks team

By WikiLeaks on August 21, 2010
http://blog.wikileaks.org/2010/08/allegations-against-wikileaks-founder-and-spokesperson-julian-assange.html


90 posted on 08/21/2010 8:17:14 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: Enchante
Maybe he has been raping women for a while, and this time he overreached himsef on the basis of his recently expanded notoriety and ego.

Yes, we will have to see just how serious theSwedish government is about this. You must remember thatthis is a socialist state.The proscuter is serious and so are the police, so are the women.

in a socialist state though, it complaints must also be politically correct. If the women were beaten, or physically abiuised, then the government may step outside the burgeoning leftist political correctness which invest all socialist states and seek justice. If not, they will quietly allow the women to be paid off and subsequently to disappear.Amd our rapist will go about his sordid business doing the same thing without being caught, much the wiser.

91 posted on 08/21/2010 8:32:39 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Pinkbell
"Swedish authorities issued a warrant for his arrest Friday, in connection with two separate cases, The Associated Press reported.

He should get in contact with police so that he can be confronted with the suspicions,” Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told the AP.

Assange, 39, an Australian with no fixed address, spends much of his time in Sweden to take advantage of its legal protections for his whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks".

So...much...Schadenfreude...


92 posted on 08/21/2010 8:34:57 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: synbad600; Cindy
I read that re: rape, sex is the weapon. Something like that.

Yes, that's what the leftists want people to believe. They try to equate violent offenders with every man, and this is one of the "Bridges" they use to try to do it. They attempt to equate male sexual desire with violence in peoples' minds.

Try going to a university campus and taping a Women's Studies (oops, Womyn's Studies) class--they don't allow it. But when they have been infiltrated and secretly taped, a lot of their strategies have come out.

Meanwhile, study after study has shown that many rapists would prefer women who wanted sex with them, and they commit the rape when they can't get what they want. Think about the statements the leftists are making and realize that it's like saying a robber would rather stick up a convenience store than be handed a bunch of money.

Sure, there are definitely those who want to use the sex as the weapon and conduct their crimes out of sadism, anger, jealousy, etc., just like there are psychopathic murderers. But if we were to believe all murderers had no other motive, we wouldn't be fighting the crime properly.

Likewise, let's be honest about rape.

On the very cynical level, these extreme feminists and other leftists who broad-brush rape as based on violence are encouraging rape and cheering it the way Barack Obama cheers economic collapse. Why? Because they know more rape --> more power for them.

93 posted on 08/21/2010 8:35:23 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Some percentage of muggings are less about the money, than in the sense of power over the victim.

In the case of rape, for some percentage the sense of power adds to the sexual excitement. If this was not the case, then paying for a prostitute would make more sense. Even committing robbery and then using the money to buy a hooker would generally involve less risk of jail time than violent rape.

Exactly..

It's SOME, not ALL.

94 posted on 08/21/2010 8:36:24 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

the UK people are FINALLY getting the idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKdBxpKqUvs&feature=related

and they want their guns back


95 posted on 08/21/2010 8:45:28 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: ScaniaBoy

Charges have been withdrawn. It is a headline on Fox News, no link to an article yet (well the link opens the original charges article).


96 posted on 08/21/2010 8:54:18 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Bush’s Fault


97 posted on 08/21/2010 8:56:51 AM PDT by NCBraveheart (BARACK OBAMA....A GIANT SACK OF SUCK!)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...

Thanks ScaniaBoy! And thanks AdmSmith:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2574419/posts?page=11#11


98 posted on 08/21/2010 8:58:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he's cut out." -- Lord Buckley)
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To: Candor7
They are likely Swedish.And the likely were doing research for him.They appear to have had specific assignments.Youh naive, letists, who want to do some digging into semi secured areas of the web that has information damaging to the Free Western nations.

They got more than they bargained for apparently. Maybe they will now see the true liberal fascist nature of this man. Rights of passage into the fascist inner circle for European women has always been to bend over and take it and keep their mouths shut. Nothing new there.

But fighting fascism is best done in three ways: truth, exposure, ,and ridicule.Lets hope there are still a few Swedes who remember the last time they had to do it.

Which is the point.

99 posted on 08/21/2010 9:03:02 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BigCinBigD

Well the good thing about Sweden is they do not elect muslims to run their country. They also do not have a tax on non-muslims or Jinza tax which is what ObamaCare is. Muslims can opt out so it is a tax on non-muslims.

Sadly Americans turned over their power to TV because ALL of TV supports Obama 100%.


100 posted on 08/21/2010 9:04:24 AM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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